Is there a plumber in the house???

[steveoutlaw]

I'm having a new gas range delivered on Saturday and need someone (licensed) that knows how to hook up a gas fitting. Can anybody help me out?? I'll pay $$$

 

Thanks.

[Jon Lazar]

Is there an existing gas valve and fitting in the space where your oven fits?

 

Also, the seller may be able to install the oven if you haven't already asked them.

 

Jon

[zygote2k]

If you already have a gas range, it's very simple.

1) Turn off gas at back of existing range.

2) Disconnect with 2 pipe wrenches.

3) Use plumbers goop on the new fittings on the range.

4) Connect with 2 pipe wrenches.

5) Turn on range and cook me a burger for these easy instructions.

[steveoutlaw]

Is there an existing gas valve and fitting in the space where your oven fits?

Also, the seller may be able to install the oven if you haven't already asked them.

Jon

 

Yep, there is already a gas valve there........and Lowes would be happy to do it for $400........That's right........$400 for one fitting.

 

If you already have a gas range, it's very simple.

1) Turn off gas at back of existing range.

2) Disconnect with 2 pipe wrenches.

3) Use plumbers goop on the new fittings on the range.

4) Connect with 2 pipe wrenches.

5) Turn on range and cook me a burger for these easy instructions.

 

I know it's simple......I've connected gas fittings before. The problem is that I have a wife......and my wife, God bless her, would not feel safe if this was not performed by someone who is licensed and insured.

[zygote2k]

looks like the wife wins yet again. was that a bullwhip I just heard?

[lanman]

At $400 - it might be cheaper to go get yourself licensed, and insured!!

 

bob

[Pat_13]

Um, you might want to test for leaks too.

 

That easy as getting the kitchen sponge and some soap and put suds all around the fitting and watch for bubbles.

[Sikryd]

My wife is the same way.....for good reason probably! lol

 

For $400 bucks though I would have to convince her!!!! Thats crazy!

 

Hope you find someone

[CHUBAKAH]

If you can wait until Sunday, I can do it. Just PM me with details as far as address and contact info.

 

Mark

[lanman]

If you can wait until Sunday, I can do it. Just PM me with details as far as address and contact info.

 

Mark

 

And probably for less than $400...

 

I am amazed lately at the prices people are charging for simple services. Friend had her alarm go off for the sump. She called 'A Plumber' (probably can't bash companies here). Guy comes out - tells her her effluent pump is shot, and she needs new floats for the float switches. And because it's been hit several times with a lawn mower, he wants to replace the little plastic junction box - which he calls a 'switch box'. Tells her they charge 'by the job', not by parts and labor - and that by the book, the cost will be $3000. But he gives her a senior citizen discount down to $2600. She wants to know why it's so expensive. He says the pump is $800 all by itself!

 

So I get her to give me the numbers off the pump. Online - $306 plus $20 shipping. I figure the floats are about $20, and the Junction box is about $5. So, even if he bought the pump retail (unlikely - it is a large plumbing 'chain' - they probably get a 10% discount) he has $350 parts. He worked 6 hours, which included an hour driving to get parts.

 

$2600-$350 is $2250 for labor. /6 hours = $375 an hour! This is not rocket science... I can replace mine in two hours, and I'm an amateur. I used to be able to do it in 30 mins... but I let someone else do it once, and he took out all of the neat 'unions' that I had put in there to make it quick and easy - so I'm back to sawing PVC, etc.

 

I can't imagine what he was doing for 5 hours.

 

bob

[CHUBAKAH]

And probably for less than $400...

If it were to go through my company, not really. Plumbing minimum is around $350, and the permit that your supposed to pull [city bending you over] has got to be somewhere around 50 bucks.

 

Ridicules? Yes, but quite the norm in this area.

 

When I moved back to the area after 20 years away, and heard you had to pull a permit to change out a stove I was shocked. CA has got to be one of the more strict states in the nation, and that's not a requirement there, however they do require a quick shut off inside the cabinet now for access to turn it off which is not required here.

 

I figure in another 30 years they will catch up with current code out west.

 

There are a lot of scammers in the business though. Just do your homework and check out the BBB.

[CHUBAKAH]

If you already have a gas range, it's very simple.

1) Turn off gas at back of existing range.

2) Disconnect with 2 pipe wrenches.

3) Use plumbers goop on the new fittings on the range.

4) Connect with 2 pipe wrenches.

5) Turn on range and cook me a burger for these easy instructions.

Should have seen this earlier, and to anyone reading it, NEVER USE PLUMBERS GOOP on gas line. They make special Teflon tape for the rough in lines, but you don't use ANYTHING on finish compression fittings EVER.

 

If there is a leak, you change the fitting.

 

Now go get me a bowl of ice cream lamb chop.